On 9/12/06, Alan B. Pearce <A.B.Pearce@rl.ac.uk> wrote:
> >AFAICR there is also a much more rarely used ***DATA***
> >path feature available somewhere in the dark arcanery
> >of the MSDOS world.
>
> NO - that is what myself, and at least one other said, while individual
> programs may have used such a variable to define where to find data files,
> this HAS NOT been a specific feature of MSDOS, and had to be programmed into
> the application to find the variable, and search the paths it found therein.

That is correct -- there is no such beast as "find my data file in any of
these directories".  It must be programmed into the application.

Bill

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